PowerDevice

This morning I have been trying to put the car on 4 jack stands so I can take off all the wheels at one time, but I don't see anyway of doing this?

Help?

rm4two

Your 550 should have jack points at all four corners. They are recognizable by a black rubber jackpad.

BimmerFan52

There is a plastic jack pad on the front beam which is exposed through the front engine splash pan and is about 3" X 5". Use a short piece (about 5") of 2X4 laid flat on your floor jack pad to provide a flat surface to meet the plastic pad and raise the entire front end of the car and place the two front jack stands and then lower and remove the floor jack. If your floor jack won't clear under the front end you can drive the front tires up onto the two pieces of 2X10 or 2X12 to gain the clearance first.

Once the front end is in the air use that same short 5" piece of 2X4 on the floor jack pad and jack up the rear using the rear differential cover. The 2X4 spreads the weight across the differential cover cooling fins evenly to prevent damage to the fins. Then place the two rear jack stands.

west

I usually use four jack stands. It's quick and easy:


If spending any time under the car is required, usually not a bad idea to use jacks as insurance on either side:




When replacing the automatic transmission with a manual transmission, cribbing blocks proved useful:


Cribbing blocks can take up quite a bit of space.

miii

West - Please point me to your Auto to manual tranny conversion thread if it already exists- I tried looking but don't see it. Would love to hear/see more details.

audiophool

Drive the front wheels up ramps, then jack at the subframe with a floor jack. Once the front is on stands (at factory jack points), the floor jack should fit under from the front to jack the diff, then put jackstands at the rear factory jack points.

My 535 is factory ride height and I can't get my jack under otherwise.

west

Click at the following link and look for post #111. Documentation of the conversion pretty much begins there:

https://5series.net/forums/e60-parts...3/#post1516451

ncsugrad2006

You, sir, are insane

And this is coming from a guy who rebuilt an N62B44 in his driveway, haha

(http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=731948 if you are interested)

west

ncsugrad2006, excellent! I'm looking to do the same. May have some questions for you when that project is underway. Thank you for the link- great thread.

ncsugrad2006

Thanks--so far so good on the rebuild.

Let me know if any questions. The amount of research I had to do was pretty crazy

One thing to keep in mind is I have not seen aftermarket rings for the 4.8L engines. 4.4 you can buy them from Hastings for like 1/10th the price BMW charges

You can probably get them through goetze in Europe if you can find a contact over there